Religious Folks

[Latimer]

Simple question I was always curious about.


Have any of you that have been raised in a religious household, grown up and followed a different religion than the one you were born into?

Or have any of you parents let your children choose their own religion?

 

[Y_lifter]

Yo.. Catholic family Outcast here !!!!!

Raised as a Italian / Irish Catholic with all the trappings like CCD classes and all the required things such as Baptism, Communion, Confirmation, Confession etc...

As soon as I left home I figured out I thought it was not for me and after researching and trying different other christian faiths have stuck with Protestant Presbyterian...

My sisters have raised their kids as Catholic as tradition dictates so therefore I am an outcast and have hurt our parents...

My Mom has come to accept my beliefs and now says " We all believe in the same GOD anyway"...

 

[bigguns7]

Simple question I was always curious about.


Have any of you that have been raised in a religious household, grown up and followed a different religion than the one you were born into?

Or have any of you parents let your children choose their own religion?

I grew up a Baptist, and I want to get as far away from that as I can. I'm a Christian, but I'm studying Buddhist philosophy right now. I told my parents about it this weekend, and they seemed interested more than disappointed or negative.

 

[WODIN]

I was raised a Babtist, I practice basic bhuddist teachings and I could really be called more of a gnostic than anything at this point.

 

[decem]

my mom was catholic.. but not really devoted or anything.. my biological father was atheist.. i think.. actually i just know he didn't go to church..

my mom enrolled me in ccd.. after the second class.. i told my mom.. "this is crap.. it's all nonsense... i'm not going anymore".. and she said ok...


i don't have kids yet.. but when i do.. if i do.. i won't raise them with any particular religion.. i will teach them the basics and more of each particular religion.. if they want to learn.. and i'll let them do what they want.. and no.. i will not bad mouth any particular religion when i teach them.. i will teach them in such a way that i express completely neutrality in my feelings/thoughts on each religion..


peace

 

[decem]

oh yeah.. i forgot to mention.. i'm an atheist to the nth degree..

 

[addickt]

STOP POSTING RELIGOUS BULLSHIT.

If you have a question, please die and ask your "god"

No one on here knows any more or less than you.

it is all just rehashed fairy tale bullshit.


Am I the only fucker on here that gets sick of people trying to answer eternal questions on a god damn fitness board?

People have been asking this shit for thousands of years and you think you can log onto a fucking message board and get answers?

Gimme a fucking break.

 

[Latimer]

Very interesting so far.


I assumed most people would've ended up an atheist and give up on religion totally.

What made you choose one over the other? Was it more of a total package deal, or was there one specific stance/belief that you agreed strongly with? Or vise-versa for you choosing to leave your original religion.


Do any of you follow your own god/higher power or pray to an existing god under your own set of rules?

 

[VooDoo Lady]

I was raised a Babtist, I practice basic bhuddist teachings and I could really be called more of a gnostic than anything at this point.

buddhist AND agnostic? How is that possible?

Here's the cliff notes version on me:

I was raised Catholic, but never had a relationship with God, hated going to church EVERY frigging Sunday..got nothing from it.

I married a very vocal atheist who convinced me though belittling and wearing me down over time that there was no God and religion was a ridiculous notion.

Fast forward 6 years.......God strategically placed people in my life to help me realize that I NEEDED a relationship with God...

I go to a non-denominational Christian church every Sunday with my son and LOVE it. I have a VERY STRONG faith in God....

Because of some REALLY difficult experiences my husband came to develop a strong faith in God as well (miracles DO happen )

We teach our son about God and Jesus and love...not dogma of any particular religion. His capacity to grasp the concept of God is MIND-BLOWING.....to see his reveling in God's love without the without the self-consciousness adults have is beyond words. It simply cannot be overstated......



VDL

P.S. Latimer - my husbands screen name (on other boards) is Dexter Manley

 

[VooDoo Lady]

STOP POSTING RELIGOUS BULLSHIT.

If you have a question, please die and ask your "god"

No one on here knows any more or less than you.

it is all just rehashed fairy tale bullshit.


Am I the only fucker on here that gets sick of people trying to answer eternal questions on a god damn fitness board?

People have been asking this shit for thousands of years and you think you can log onto a fucking message board and get answers?

Gimme a fucking break.

I'm feelin' the love, addict, I'm feeeeeeeelin' the love

 

[Latimer]

STOP POSTING RELIGOUS BULLSHIT.

If you have a question, please die and ask your "god"

No one on here knows any more or less than you.

it is all just rehashed fairy tale bullshit.


Am I the only fucker on here that gets sick of people trying to answer eternal questions on a god damn fitness board?

People have been asking this shit for thousands of years and you think you can log onto a fucking message board and get answers?

Gimme a fucking break.

Did you take the time to read the questions? My questions are in regards to the people that choose to follow a religion. I wasn't looking for eternal answers about existence or debates over which religion is best and why. They're about the people and their choices and reasonings behind them.

 

[addickt]

Did you take the time to read the questions? My questions are in regards to the people that choose to follow a religion. I wasn't looking for eternal answers about existence or debates over which religion is best and why. They're about the people and their choices and reasonings behind them.

Nope, I hate religion and and there is no god.. I dont read these posts anymore as they always turn out the same.

And I hate you for posting on either subject.

People choose to follow religion cause they are weak and cant accept there own mortality.

Choice of which religion is largely irrelevant and often based on self righteousness or logistics.

I dont care if you wear a rag on your head, carry a cross on your chest or worship satan..

Your ass is gonna be dead just like the rest of the religions so stop wasting your time thinking about it and live life while you can.

 

[addickt]

AND WHOEVER JUST GAVE ME NEGATIVE KARMA AND SAID..

" YOU SHOULD BELIEVE IN GOD, YOU WILL NEED HIM IN YOUR BATTLE WITH CANCER"


You are a sick little pussy, how can you consider yourself religiuos and post some bullshit like that..

You are a chicken shit mother fucker.

At least sign the shit you cowardly little pussy.

You are whats wrong with the world, not me.

 

[Y_lifter]

Well, It's comforting for me to know that the stuff Addickt is saying has been said for thosands of years....

And yet the idea of Religion is Alive and Kicking.....

 

[addickt]

Well, It's comforting for me to know that the stuff Addickt is saying has been said for thosands of years....

And yet the idea of Religion is Alive and Kicking.....

Yep, more people have been killed in the name of GOD, than for any other reason..

You should really be comforted by that.

 

[Latimer]

Nope, I hate religion and and there is no god.. I dont read these posts anymore as they always turn out the same.

And I hate you for posting on either subject.

People choose to follow religion cause they are weak and cant accept there own mortality.

Choice of which religion is largely irrelevant and often based on self righteousness or logistics.

I dont care if you wear a rag on your head, carry a cross on your chest or worship satan..

Your ass is gonna be dead just like the rest of the religions so stop wasting your time thinking about it and live life while you can.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

By the way, I don't follow any religion and would agree with you that the religious posts do get annoying and I tend to avoid most of the threads in the first place. Like I said though, this thread wasn't about the acutal religions but the reasoning behind the adopting of a new religion and abandoning the old one.

 

[Y_lifter]

Originally posted by addickt
Yep, more people have been killed in the name of GOD, than for any other reason..

Not "MY" God...........

 

[Latimer]

What Gods do you pray to?

I pray to the 4 winds, and you?

To Crom, but he doesn't listen.

Heh, what good is he than?

Crom is strong! When I die, I will go to Valhalla, and he will ask me: What is the riddle of steel? And if I don't know it, he will cast me out of Valhalla laughing. That's Crom, strong on his mountain.

My God is greater.

Hah! Crom laughs at your four winds. Laughs from his mountain.

My God is the everlasting sky, your God, lives beneath him.

 

[WODIN]

buddhist AND agnostic? How is that possible?

I said GNOSTIC!

 

[addickt]

Not "MY" God...........

Of course not.


Everyone think THEIR gods is supreme and divine... Its all bullshit.

 

[addickt]

Hey Latimer havn't seen you here in awhile-how has life been treating you..

First please don't address posts like his we will be here for days.

Next as far as your religious question-I grew up in the United States which as you know is built upon puritanical roots..there fore it is hard to decifer at times what the basic differences in religions are. IMO

However, I choose to follow religious creed because it helps me to preserve the virtues in life that complete me.I.e purpose, happiness etc.


also- I would like to add. that I would personally ask you to post here more often..the board has gotten extemely stale in your and thick dogs absence..just a favor

piece

Of all the words in the world I would think you could spell PEACE.

 

[addickt]

I actually do that on purpose..because I know alot of people do that to suck on Havocs dick..so I thought it would illuminate ..sorry bro guess not.

look at Matts, Decem etc. I guess its their way to kiss his ass.

Ok , sorry. I didnt think that you were that stupid. I respect all of your thoughts, I wish there were a god. I just dont think there is.

sorry greenhill.

 

[decem]

Of all the words in the world I would think you could spell PEACE.

his stupid ass spelled "roots" wrong the first time he posted.. he spelled it "ruits"..

but on an more upbeat note.. it's really just more proof toward our argument that religious fanatics such as dgreenhill are FUCKING MORONS!!!

 

[VooDoo Lady]

I said GNOSTIC!

S O R R Y ......... shesh

 

[WODIN]

S O R R Y ......... shesh

Next time this happens you get covered in peanut butter with honey and thrown in the pit of a million fat boys!

 

[decem]

Ok , sorry. I didnt think that you were that stupid. I respect all of your thoughts, I wish there were a god. I just dont think there is.

sorry greenhill.

dude.. please tell me you didn't mean all that...

actually.. tell me that you didn't mean ANY of it..

 

[decem]

Next-you and addict don't share the same argument..he actually makes sense while all you do is hurl insults..and he is actually funny on occassion. while all you do is just hurl insults and ask completely ignorant questions and the giggle to your self.

hey jimmy two times.. bring me the papers the papers..

 

[decem]

hey d..

so.. since you plan on living your life as jesus did.. (which includes physically assaulting those who oppose you.. right?).. when are you going to start fucking goats... or have you already?


btw.. she's not my girlfriend anymore.. she's my fiancee.. get it right nimwit..

 

[decem]

Okay so she is just the coast guards girlfriend...thanks for clearing that up for me..

I thought you were putting me on ignore genius......or was just another empty threat.

no.. i enjoy watching you illustrate day in and day out that your IQ is clearly below the 105 mark.. i've just stopped "discussing" things with you.. as it's impossible to have any type of intelligent conversation with someone who will never experience true abstract thought and that has absolutely no sagacity whatsoever...

btw.. again.. you got it all the wrong.. she's the navy's girlfriend.. stupid..

 

[addickt]

dude.. please tell me you didn't mean all that...

actually.. tell me that you didn't mean ANY of it..

I didnt mean it.. I think we are all gonna die and rot.

I seriously think people the believe in god are weak and cannot admit that they are insginificant little units that the earth will just use as food for its other worthless little beings upon death.

Bibles should be recycled and used for something useful...

 

[addickt]

actually I think Both Decem and Greenhill are funny...

I feel like a Tom and Jerry cartoon with the devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other..

 

[decem]

Well, for starters measuring IQ and abstract thought don't go together.. stupid ass. geez..

If something is abstract than it cannot fall within those parameters dumb fuck.

What the fuck does true abstract thought mean?

And if everything is arbitray how would one decide on what is sagacious..please get you arguments straight-you are making yourself look quite foolish!

dude.. you've now verified that you are below the 100 mark..

abstract thought and intelligence quotients do indeed go together..

abstract thought is thinking that is coherent and logical, and iq tests measure an individuals verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, abstract/visual reasoning and short-term memory...

and when did i ever say that everything is arbitrary.. and even if i did.. what the fuck are you trying to say in that sentence.. as arbitrary and sagacious have no connection whatsoever.. were you trying to conclude that because something is arbitrary (i.e determined by chance or whim rather than reason or principle), that it can not be sagacious (i.e. having keen discernment or sound judgement, acutely insightful and wise, etc).. you argument lacks logic..

once again.. you have helped me to prove my point.. you have no capability of abstract thought..

 

[huntmaster]

to answer your question, Latimer--my fellow Bear fan-

I was raised in a Christian home. I was raised in an environment where me and my dad would routinely go out on the street and witness to the people hanging out on the main drag. This was when I was very young. I also attended Christian school through the sixth grade, I then left to go to public school so that I could play sports.

I was raised going to the nursing homes, ministering to the sick and dying. I have the utmost respect for the way my folks raised me. The took me out of the four walls of the church and showed me what it really means to be 'Christ Like'.


And, by the grace of God, I have not turned away from this.

 

[decem]

Re: to answer your question, Latimer--my fellow Bear fan-

I was raised in an environment where me and my dad would routinely go out on the street and witness to the people hanging out on the main drag. .

um.. huntmaster.. no disrespect intended buddy.. but what does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

 

[huntmaster]

Re: Re: to answer your question, Latimer--my fellow Bear fan-

um.. huntmaster.. no disrespect intended buddy.. but what does that have to do with the price of tea in china?

Just answering the question of how I was raised as far asw religious preference goes.

To answer your question, it has nothing to do with the price of tea in China,

 

[huntmaster]

Your a good man, DGreenhill--I dont care what Decem says!lol!!

 

[decem]

you two dipshits realize that people QUOTE things to reference them... right...??

so my question was referring to the sentence i quoted.. in which you told us how you were "raised in an environment where me and my dad would routinely go out on the street and witness to the people hanging out on the main drag"... which goes to show us.. well.. absofuckinglutely nothing... and tells us.. well.. absofuckinglutely nothing....



damn you two are thick...

 

[huntmaster]

Decem--

lol---Man, you sure do wear your emotions on the sleeve of your shirt dont you!

I mentioned that to explain that not only was I raised in church, but I was also raised to serve God outside of the walls of church---on the street.

now chill man.

 

[decem]

first of all- I warned you not to insult my friends on here..this is between us.. Leave him out of it and show him some respect you piece of dog crap.

oh yeah.. i forgot.. you said you were gonna beat me up.. in the name of christ and all....

 

[huntmaster]

DGreenhill-thanks man. Decem dont botha me--he just B goof'n around, ------ I think.

anyway, peace out y'all, I gotta get to work.